A watchdog group sent a lawyer to the Food and Drug Administration’s Washington headquarters — where he found at least three beverages making phony health claims on their labels on sale in the cafeteria.

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The elephants and donkeys competing in Texas politics have some company — a dog named Woodrow is running for governor.

Lorri Michel of Austin, who adopted Woodrow in 2006, said the stunt is meant to call attention to homeless dogs and cats.

A thief broke into a pharmacy in Edmond, Okla., and grabbed four hydrocodone bottles — that were filled to the brim with M&Ms by a druggist who’d been robbed of the narcotic before.

“It was very creative on the part of the pharmacist,” said a police spokesman. “He had enough and when he decided to fill his medicine bottles . . . with candy, it made for a true case of sweet justice.”

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Al Gore would approve.

The editor of a magazine in the Arctic town of Yellowknife, Canada, says his publication’s first swimsuit issue serves a social purpose.

He insists the photos of 10 beauties posing at a melting ice field are meant to warn his readers about global warming.

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It was more fun when feminists burned bras.

Sweden’s Feminist Party burned $13,000 worth of paper currency to highlight wage disparities between men and women.

Party leader Gudrun Schyman pulled handfuls of cash from a plastic bag and threw them into a smoking barbecue.